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Avira Antivirus Pro

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10

Leonardo Andrés David Zerón

Oct 8, 2015

Avira is hands-down one of the best antivirus software solutions available – even the free version is far better than many paid solutions. In my personal experience, I have seen a large amount of users with considerable system performance issues caused by viruses and malware that their antivirus software has been unable to detect. They have experienced a drastic improvement in performance as soon as they upgraded to the free version of Avira. The great customer value of Avira is due to the fact that it offers excellent protection while being lightweight: the effect on system resources is minimal. Avira’s Real-Time Protection is proactive, has a nearly instantaneous response to threats, and it can scan in the background with a relatively small impact on system performance. The free version is a must for any home user, and the Pro version offers enhanced protection during Internet browsing, online purchases and banking transactions.

Pros :

The free version is far better than many paid alternatives, and it includes browser safety and system speed-up functions. The Avira Antivirus Pro version is affordable, at $44.99/year.

The software is lightweight both in terms of disk space required for installation, and demand on system resources while operating. Programmed scans may start automatically with minimal effect on computer performance. Even during a deep system scan, the impact on performance is much lower compared with other antivirus solutions.

Avira is extremely proactive and detects threats in an instant, applying quarantine measures or deleting the compromised files.

Modular design – Software add-ons can be installed or configured through a convenient web dashboard, and specific add-ons exist for each web browser. Avira is very customizable according to user preferences.

Cons :

Sometimes Avira may have issues with USB devices, incorrectly identifying their auto-run software as malware. However, this can be easily avoided by temporarily disabling Real-Time Protection when files must be saved or copied from a USB device.

The dashboard is sometimes slow to open, but without affecting system performance.

Acronis Drive Monitor

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9

Tommy Boucher

Dec 24, 2015

These days, the hard drive are getting bigger and bigger, often in combination with an SSD and/or an external drive. You may use many Software to Sync and Backup all your data, but, at the end of the day, you don’t want to reinstall your computer, it is too time-consuming. Having a good view of your hard drives health is very important, because you should see sign before the disk die. This is why S.M.A.R.T interface exist (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). But what do you do with the S.M.A.R.T alerts? Do you monitor your event logs? If you are like me, you only review your event logs when you have problems, and it’s too late. Acronis, is a company, known for their True Image backup software, developed a tool to monitor those counters. This is Acronis Drive Monitor. Note that True Image is worth a try. You can configure the tool to send E-Mail notification when alerts pop, maybe to alert yourself, or maybe to alert your geek family member or neighbor that will take care of it. Sometimes, the popups pop when my kids are playing on the computer, and I will never see it. Thanks to Acronis for emailing me. You can also receive reports of your disk health, but in my cause, too many alerts mean rules creation and lose of information. There is a temperature monitor of the disk (for the supported disks) that will warn when the temperature is too high, but the only times it happened to me, I’ve ignored it since I was working and didn’t want to “stop” doing what I was doing. I disabled those alerts. You can make a choice which disks you want to monitor, but I my opinion… all disks matter. There is a backup monitoring embedded in the tool, a way to say “Buy Acronis True Image please”.

Pros :

Good view of the health of all disks.

Alerts can be sent by email.

Cons :

The UI is large, with a strange feel and look, when it’s only a monitoring tools.

No actions are recommended, don’t know what to do with my drive.

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8

angelina olsin

Nov 18, 2015

Panda Antivirus offers great protection to Mac users, not only them but to PC users too. This is probably the only antivirus which doesn't pop up notifications every single day, it automatically updates, and removes the threat as np computer is safe from threats. It gives a strong protection from malware. The software is based on cloud computing. It works even in an off-line mode. Very useful!

Most Unfavorable User Review

Avira Antivirus Pro

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2

Tommy Boucher

Dec 24, 2015

Because I’m an advanced IT geek, I am not used to have an antivirus on my personal computers, but with all the phishing and crap we download these days, it’s a must. Virus are more and more sophisticated, and maybe the operation system is more secure than it used to be, you are still in danger. You don’t want your computer to be infected by a ransomware for example and lose all your data. You need to find an antivirus that fits your needs. Avira is overall a great antivirus, but nothing else than a signature scanner. There is some strange choice like why do I need to be an administrator to start a scan? Why do you have a Firewall section when you don’t have a firewall? I tested both Antivirus Pro and Internet Security Suite. You know what? The different is that the security suite comes with “PC Speed Optimization”. How does it make a “Security Suite” adding “speeds”? Really not sure. Did I say that the website is very slow? There are many different preset scans that you can run. Standard recommendation of the industry is running a full scan once a week, and a Quick scan once a day. Why? Because full scan are to resource intensive, and with the new virus signature coming every day, you may have missed the virus from the real-time, so you want at least scan the most important files every day. A quick scan on my computer took 41 seconds. Excellent. My appreciation stops here. First, I expect from a security suite to help secure my computer. The firewall is just a configuration for the Windows Firewall, so, basically, they don’t have a firewall. There is a web filtering… but not sure how good it can be since there is no firewall, basic of Security Suite. There is also a Spam filter, that scan POP 110 and IMAP 143, both not SSL. I don’t see any integration in my Outlook, so if you are using Gmail, it won’t be scanned.

Pros :

I like the color Red.

The Quick scan is really Quick.

Cons :

Security Suite is “Desktop speed optimization”.

Very expensive for almost no features.

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Most Favorable Critic Review

Avira Antivirus Pro

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90

Randall Sutherland , TopTenReviews

Friday 20 March 2015

Avira Antivirus Pro is a better antivirus for PC product than half of the competitors in our product review. It’s just that, for Americans, it would be necessary to telephone long-distance to Europe if you had a situation that couldn’t be resolved via email. And in a market where most competitors provide online chat access to technical support, Avira does not. Finally, while quite a few of Avira’s competitors cover more than one PC with a single license, an Avira license protects just one PC.

Acronis Drive Monitor

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75

Jack Wallen , TechRepublic

Monday 20 December 2010

Acronis Drive Monitor is for anyone who needs a little help in predicting when an internal or external drive might go bad. Since the vast majority of users tend to forget that drives do go bad eventually, Drive Monitor will either email or display an alert when certain conditions have been met. It's easy to install, easy to set up, and easy to use, so nearly any level of experience can take advantage of this monitor.

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